(August 22, 2013 at 2:15 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: There is such a thing as "petitionary prayer" but that tends to involve asking God to grant you the strength to do/not do something, strength to endure some kind of misfortune and so on. But prayer does have a real demonstrable physiological effect some kind it's certainly not "imaginary" as you claim. If were just imaginary I should think people would have realized this and stopped doing it thousands of years ago.
There are thousands of religions dotted throughout the history of humanity. According to your theology, all of them bar yours were appealing to false, nonexistent gods that could do nothing for them, and yet they continued. So either the effects are imaginary and the idea of looking to a higher power is just a comforting, repetitive meme, or any physiological effects that do occur happen regardless of the particular god being prayed to, and can therefore be ascribed to praying itself, and not the deity being invoked.
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